Analyst, Data & Insights, Games

About the Role

The Times is looking for a creative analyst who is passionate about data and eager for the opportunity to support the Games team. Within the Data and Insights Group (DIG), the New York Times has fostered a large community of experienced analysts who partner with Product, Engineering, Design, and PMO teams across the business. For this role, you'll work within our DIG Game Analytics team to support the Live Operations group.

You'll partner with producers, product managers, engineers, designers, marketers, and editors to support our vision of being the premier destination for digital puzzle games. You'll analyze data, produce insights, build data pipelines, construct dashboards, run experiments, and more while working on a product that is beloved by tens of millions of users every week. You will report to the Senior Manager of Analytics for LiveOps within Games. This is a hybrid position.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze large datasets to help inform decision-making as it relates to

• Write SQL in dbt to develop data models, pipelines, and infrastructure that create evergreen solutions and support the wider analytics team.

• Set up and run A/B Tests - design the tests, provide scope and analysis, present findings, and advise on next steps

• Develop dashboards to expand access to data and analytics

• Perform analysis to create insights, advocating for them, and guiding them into action

• You will help maintain live dashboards that show the operational health and status of our games.

• You will learn the fundamentals of incident response and support post-event data gathering.

• You will help document live event configurations and their performance for future optimizations.

• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications:

• 1+ years of experience working with data teams to deliver reporting and analysis or an advanced quantitative degree

• Proficiency in SQL and experience working with relational databases

• Some experience with data visualization tools such as Mode, Tableau, or Looker

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ years of experience in digital/app product analytics

• 1+ years of experience designing data specs and testing for data integrity

• Some experience in Python or R

• Familiarity with A/B testing

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